Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Wed, January 7, 2009 12:34 am, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> Editing is still an issue. I like the idea of confirmed DragonFly >> developers being allowed to edit the site via the web, if that is >> possible. We will probably have to split the docs section into >> a freeform section and a locked section that only confirmed developers >> can edit. > > All the pages can be edited by anyone with commit access.
I think Matt thinks of people editing the main web site via the browser and not exclusively via git. I second this - I'm way more reluctant to get a shell out and hack wiki syntax into a text file and commit and push and whatnot versus clicking on a button and changing the text directly in the browser. > Web editing is > right now limited to /docs/*. Everything that's in docs/ now is material > from the wiki, so we're not "exposing" anything new. (you can write > "PageSpecs" that specify what can and can't be edited.) > > The login for editing via the web is separate from developer logins; it > uses its own system or OpenID (http://openid.net) to handle logins. There > is a separate plugin that can use checkpassword (or potentially > checkpassword-pam, now that Peter's committed so much PAM work) to > DragonFly) to authenticate against existing accounts on the machine, which > would make having a leaf account the barrier to entry. We'd want to set > up https, though, and I don't really like the machine logins flying about > over the net, even over https. Users on leaf don't have passwords. We'd have to find a different way to do it. cheers simon
